The Kingdom of This World, published in Spanish as El reino de este mundo in 1949, is a historical novel by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, with an English translation appearing in 1957. Set during the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804, it follows the enslaved man Ti Noel through the upheaval of the revolution, weaving Haitian history, voodoo belief and myth into a single narrative. The novel introduced Carpentier's concept of lo real maravilloso, the marvelous real, the idea that magical events could be presented as an ordinary part of Latin American and Caribbean life rather than as fantasy set apart from it, and it is considered a foundational text of magical realism in Latin American and Caribbean literature.
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Where does the character Ti Noel come from?
Carpentier met a character called Ti Noel in a play about the Haitian Revolution during a 1943 trip to Haiti.
Alejo Carpentier travelled to Haiti in 1943. There he learned of Dominique Hyppolyte's play Le Torrent, which is about the Haitian Revolution and features a character named Ti Noel. The Kingdom of This World, which Wikipedia says coincides with Carpentier's return to Cuba, makes Ti Noel its central character and the thread connecting the story of Haiti before, during and after the revolution.
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is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957.
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The Kingdom of This World (Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction, it tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture, as seen by its central character, Ti Noel, who serves as the novel's connecting thread.
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Genre: Historical novel, Magic Realism
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Genre: Historical novel, Magic Realism
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